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Author Ward, Martha, 1951-

Title Pissarro, Neo-impressionism, and the spaces of the avant-garde / Martha Ward
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996

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Description xviii, 353 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Contents 1. The Monograph and the Oeuvre -- 2. The Neo-Impressionist Avant-Garde: Critics, Spaces, Histories -- 3. Pissarro and the New Technique -- 4. Transcending Touch, Time, and Place -- 5. Avant-Gardism and the "Advance" -- 6. Psychophysical Aesthetics -- 7. The Life of La Langue populaire: Bernier and Luce -- 8. Pissarro in 1890 -- 9. Avant-Gardes and Socialist Popes: Art World Inversions -- 10. Neo-Impressionism in the Early 1890s -- 11. The Monograph and the Life -- Appendix 1 The Avant-Garde -- Appendix 2 The Study of Neo-Impressionism -- Appendix 3 Pissarro's Neo-impressionist Paintings at the Durand-Ruel Gallery
Summary Throughout, there are sensitive discussions of such artists as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, as well as Pissarro. Yet the touchstone of the book is Pissarro's intricate relationship to the various factions of the Paris art world. Pissarro's adoption of neo-impressionism, often considered an aberrant move, was in fact consistent with a larger pattern of rupture and discontinuity in his career, and a sign of his responsiveness to the changing social connotations of artistic language. In close readings of selected paintings, Ward shows how Pissarro's neo-impressionist works express his anxieties over the institutional and commercial developments of art, simultaneously addressing and seeking to alter their own historical position
In Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde, Martha Ward tracks the development and reception of neo-impressionism, revealing how the artists and critics of the French world of the 1880s and 1890s created painting's first modern vanguard movement. Paying particular attention to the participation of Camille Pissarro, the only older artist to join the otherwise youthful movement, Ward sets the neo-impressionists' individual achievements in the context of a generational struggle to redefine the purposes of painting. She describes the conditions of display, distribution, and interpretation that the neo-impressionist challenged, and explains how these artists sought to circulate their own work outside of the prevailing system
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337) and index
Subject Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903 -- Influence.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Neo-impressionism (Art) -- France.
Painters -- France -- Social conditions.
Painting, French -- 19th century.
Painting, French.
Author Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903.
LC no. 95006881
ISBN 0226873242 (cloth : acid-free paper)